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Republican Governor Rick Scott and his predecessor Charlie Crist are now neck-and-neck in Florida’s 2014 gubernatorial race. Scott picks up 42% of the vote to Crist’s 41% in a new Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of likely Florida voters. Eight percent (8%) prefer some other candidate, while nine percent (9%) are undecided. The poll did not ask about Libertarian Adrian Wyllie. In April, Crist lead Scott by six points – 45% to 39%. Scott barely edged out Democrat Alex Sink 49%…

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(Presumably…) In reaction to Circuit Judge Terry Lewis ruling that the Florida Legislature must draw up new congressional districts by Aug. 15, Democratic gubernatorial candidate is calling on incumbent Republican Governor Rick Scott to call a special session … on Medicaid expansion? Here is the Crist campaign’s statement:   “For months, Governor Crist has said Rick Scott should call a special session of the Legislature to expand access to affordable healthcare coverage to nearly a million Floridians, including 41,000 veterans. Doing…

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League of Women Voters of Florida is popping champagne corks over the order by Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis to the Florida Legislature on Friday, requiring lawmakers to immediately revise the state’s congressional map Lewis set a deadline for Aug. 15. A coalition of voter’s groups, led by the League, filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s congressional map, drawn by Republican state lawmakers. The suit claimed redistricting violated the Fair Districts rules approved by voters in 2010. The resulting email, from League…

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A Florida judge is ordering legislators to hold a special session to draw up a new congressional map for the state. Circuit Judge Terry Lewis on Friday ruled that the Florida Legislature must draw up new congressional districts by Aug. 15. Lewis said that he will then order a special election later this year for those new districts. In his ruling, Lewis agreed that the Legislature should be responsible for redrawing Florida’s congressional districts. But he said he could not…

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Charlie Crist is under fire from the Florida GOP for filming a television commercial at his high school alma mater, St. Petersburg High. Republican Party of Florida officials complained to the Pinellas County school district on Thursday and asked them to demand the Crist campaign stop airing the ad. A school administrator gave permission to the Democratic candidate to film the ad at St. Petersburg High. But district officials said that was an “error in judgment” that violated school board…

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A Senate claim bill filed Thursday seeks $1,092,040 for the family of a gasoline truck driver who died after his tanker jackknifed and exploded near a Jacksonville bridge. In August 2000, Christian Darby Stephenson, 29, drove the truck on the Hart Bridge Expressway when a Jeep hydroplaned after hitting a large puddle of standing water. Stephenson swerved to avoid hitting the Jeep and two other vehicles already involved in accidents. As he attempted to exit onto a nearby road, the…

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